The Binary Search Algorithm

question 15

Multiple Choice

The binary search algorithm

• A) cannot be used to search an array that is not sorted
• B) does twice as much work as sequential search on the average case
• C) must be written using recursion
• D) is slower than sequential search when the item being searched for is not in the array

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